PuTTY (telnet/SSH client)

[Midas]

Simon Tatham's PuTTY (http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/) is probably the best known Telnet/FTP/SSH client, but its Web presence has changed somewhat over time and as a result it gets overlooked for other forks like KiTTY or Tunnelier even here at TPFC forums (BTW, the page at http://www.putty.org/ looks like a courtesy of Bitvise).

PuTTY is a free implementation of Telnet and SSH for Win32 and Unix platforms, along with an xterm terminal emulator.

Download PuTTY latest version (currently Beta v0.67) from http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgta ... nload.html.

Forks and related programs found around the forums:

• PuTTY Portable -- http://portableapps.com/apps/internet/putty_portable
• WinSCP -- http://www.portablefreeware.com/?id=214
• KiTTY -- http://www.portablefreeware.com/?id=1424
• BitVise SSH Client (formerly Tunnelier) -- http://www.portablefreeware.com/forums/ ... php?t=5485
• PuttyTray (from http://www.portablefreeware.com/forums/ ... php?t=2162) -- http://puttytray.goeswhere.com/
• PuttyMan -- http://www.softpedia.com/get/Network-To ... yMan.shtml

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[Cford]

Currently a PuTTY Session always Shows the PuTTY Window (titlebar with icons) in the embedded tab. i found out that this can be avoided when you start putty with a commandline-session with this normal command:

"C:\Program Files (x86)\PuTTY\putty.exe" $USERNAME$@$HOST$ -pw $PASSWORD$

Why couldn't you make this the Default behavior ?

The SSH-Session is way too slow when Scrolling and when you have much console output the pc is under heavy load and you cannot break the active command...

path https://www.putty.live

[Midas]

path https://www.putty.live

I decided to let that link slip in a first post because I'm curious about what that site standing is towards the official PuTTY's homepage...

As far as I know the official source still is www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/latest.html -- where the latest PuTTY version is v0.78, released 2022-10-29.

[Midas]

WARNING!

Every version of the PuTTY tools from v0.68 to v0.80 inclusive has a critical vulnerability in the code that generates signatures from ECDSA private keys which use the NIST P521 curve. (PuTTY, or Pageant, generates a signature from a key when using it to authenticate you to an SSH server). This vulnerability has been assigned CVE-2024-31497.

https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/wishlist/vuln-p521-bias.html

This critical vulnerability has been fixed in PuTTY v0.81, available from https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/latest.html (changelog at https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/changes.html)